J. PROJECT IV

PROJECT IV   

       

Guidelines

    1) The students, in groups, will do a project on some instruments as requested by the teacher, and it will be presented to the rest of the group with a Powerpoint presentation.

     2) Some instructions for the project

        -   Around 8 minutes, including videos from Youtube.

        -   As for the videos, there must be two, and they can be situated wherever you want throughout your presentation. Moreover, they must be around one minute each.

        - You need to talk about issues such as: instrument history, materials, general characteristics, the main parts, images, some renowned performers, where it is classified and why, some emotional characteristics of its sound, the “tessitura”, etc., etc., that is to say, all issues you think are remarkable or important.

        - A sort of “contest” could be developed: the Powerpoint that the teacher believes is the best will be "awarded" with a higher mark (a big "plus" as well as your mark, I mean), and it will be uploaded to the teacher’s own blog by the teacher.

   3) Before beginning with the Unit, the conversation assistant will do a general presentation in Powerpoint about the main instruments in the orchestra and so forth.

    4) Since the Powerpoint presentations will be about “common” instruments (violin, piano...) the teacher will upload a series of videos on “ethnic” instruments and/or “weird” instruments to the blog, in order for the students to learn new ideas about this topic.

     5) Finally, the teacher will bring some of his instruments to the classroom throughout February and March, and he will show them to the students, playing them, explaining the main parts, basic techniques, etc. So, the students will see them “in person”.  
                                                   
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     Here you have some "ethnic" and/or "weird" instruments: